Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

Bryant H. McGill

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• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everything
  • White
  • Certainty

• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Stop

• I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Age
  • Like
  • Feel

• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Dog
  • Win
  • Fight

• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Trees

• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Think
  • Man
  • Drink

• The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Career
  • Kind

• I like to do my own make-up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Like
  • Own

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • People
  • Live
  • Soul

• I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Knows
  • Roles
  • Historical

• In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Sometimes

• At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Time
  • World
  • Envy

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Eyes
  • Coffee
  • Drinking

• When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Job
  • Power
  • Reality

• Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Power
  • Think
  • Drunk

• A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• To simply argue that public spending must always go up and never be cut is irresponsible.

  

  George Osborne
  • Up

• There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Dream
  • Fighting

• Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Power